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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Statistically, if more than half of a random sample of steam games are rated to be good, the standards for evaluation are shit.

  And the people that were supposed to let us know if a game is good or not, the “professionals”, have a median score around ~75% according to open critic data, otherwise they wouldn’t have a job because sponsors would gfo.

  We’re on our own shifting through a pile of de facto shovelware to find anything of worth nowadays.

  It’s a problem not exclusive to games, mind you. Music, scientific publishing and other content for profit industries have the exact same issue: Vetting quality requires work so for profit institutions offload the vetting to the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In case everyone is sleeping let me break this down for you:

  Both crypto and modern private equity are ponzi schemes. With leverage to hold on crypto and leverage on leverage to own on private equity, both industries have been a bag throwing game between investors, with managers cashing in on every trade for close to a decade. Now, the industry is cooling down, they ran out of idiot fund managers to scam into participating in their ponzi scheme so they either let the bubble burst or they find new idiots to be left holding the bag when they cash out before the catastrophe. We’re a the find new idiots phase, with the new regulatory freedom sponsored by the pedophile in chief, all of these scammers are now turning to even lower sofistication investors to buy in their ponzi scheme so they can cash out before the shit hits the fan. Case in point, new age app brokers now advertising investment in the “private markets” as a new product. I see another wealth transfer wave from the lower and middle class to the 1% happening within 2 to 3 years. It’s going to be the reason we get Nazis again in power in the civilized world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s 50 studios that won’t ever see my money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I find you wearing these around me tey’re getting smashed while still attached to your face. Fucking STASI loving idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not an actual breakthrough. We already have faster, cheaper and more effective ways of doing what they did, with better results. It’s called mutagenesis, it’s dirt cheap and has much better yield than 16 out of 302. Considering they paid 12-16 cents per nucleotide for the synthesis, this was a massive waste of taxpayer money to promote a project based on the buzzword du jour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organs Cannot Simply Be Classified as Male or Female⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait you’re telling me from now on a son can donate a kidney to a mother and vice-versa? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t like it, don’t buy it. I’m happy for team cherry and their success. It’s not for me but I don’t resent them that it isn’t. This nothing burger discussion is yet another nothing burger designed to drive clicks and traffic off of the work of people who ACTUALLY create something of worth. Modern parasitism at its best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just leave this here in case people are actually falling for this scam. Planting trees is orders of magnitude cheaper and more effective…